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(No Model.)

B. P. JOHNSON.

ADJUSTABLE GAR STRAP.

No. 453,083. Patented May 26, 1891.

WITNESSES: IIVVE/VTOH: 4% .W W -W 1 41 a ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

BENJAMIN P. JOHNSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JAMES C. JOHNSON,OF SAME PLACE.

ADJUSTABLECAR-STRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.453,083, dated May 26,1891.

Application filed November 13, 1890. $erial No. 371,318. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN P. JoHNsoN, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and Improved Adjustable Car-Strap, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of car-straps whichare suspended from the upperportions of street and elevated railwaycars, so as to form supports for the standing passengers. The strapswhich are ordinarily used for this purpose are of uniform length andhave no means of adjustment, so that many short people and children findit extremely inconvenient to reach the straps.

The object of myinvention is to obviate this difficulty by producing astrap which may be conveniently adjusted to suit people of variousheights.

To this end my invention consists in certain features of constructionand combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described andclaimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a broken side elevation of the strap embodying my invention,showing the same in an extended position and suspended from the rod.Fig. 2 is an edge View of the strap, showing it looped up to suit theheight of a tall person. Fig. 8 is an enlarged detail perspective viewof a hook which is attached to the strap, and Fig. 4t is a perspectiveview of a modified form of the strap.

A is a rod which usually extends longitudinall y through a car, therebeinga rod on each side of the aisle, and B is the stiap, which islooped over the rod at one end, as shown at b, and which has its upperend portion riveted to the body of the strap, as shown at b, so as toform a loop 19 to engage the keeper 0 on the plate 0. The lower end ofthe strap B is formed into a loop B, which may be conveniently graspedby a short person when the strap is extended, and which may be engagedby the hook O of the plate 0 when the strap is looped up to suit theheight of atall person. The plate 0 has a hook O at 1ts lower end and akeeper con its back. The plate is secured to the upper portion of thestrap B by passing the end of the strap through the keeper and thenriveting the strap at b, as described above. It will thus be seen thatthe strap may be easily hooked up into the position shown in Fig. 2, orit may belet down into the position shown in Fig. 1, and the strapshould be made long enough to come within the reach of the shortestperson.

In Fig. 4. I have shown a modified form of the device, in which a loop Dis placed over the rod A, and the loop has at its lower end a plate orlink E, with a slot e therein, and a strap F is passed through theslot,one end of the strap having a cross-bar f fixed therein, thecross-bar being wider than the slot e is long, so that when the strapFispulled downward the cross-bar will strike against the link E andprevent the removal of the strap. The strap F has also at its upper enda hook f, and at its lower end the strap is formed into a loop F, whichmay be conveniently grasped by the hand. The loop F has an eye f fixedto one side thereof, so that when the strap is to be hooked up the hookf may be drawn down and the eye placed upon it, thus shortening thestrap.

I do not confine myself to the exact construction shown for changing thelength of the strap, as other means may be employed without departingfrom the principles of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. An adjustable car-strap having one endadapted to be secured to a rod and its opposite end formed into a loop,and a hook and eye for securing the loop to the body of the strap,substantially as described.

2. An adjustable car-strap having one end secured to a rod and providedwith a hook, and having the opposite end formed into a loop,substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a car-strap having one end secured to a rod andits opposite end formed into a loop, of the plate having on one side akeeper for attachment to the strap, and having at its lower end a hook,substantially as described.

BENJAMIN P. JOHNSON.

Witnesses: r

WARREN B. IIUToHINsoN, E. M. CLARK.

